Blur's greatest gig ever, in their own words

A headline slot at Glastonbury in 2009 was the groups’s biggest test - and their finest hour according to the band members

Blur's reunion shows were monstrously successful events that sold out in minutes. The huge London gigs held in Hyde Park were among the biggest they had ever played, and the nights themselves were swelteringly hot. Somehow, the band brought the inside outside, releasing fiercely pent-up emotions over a crowd already pre-sold on the importance of complete abandonment to the moment.

However, this very security brought its own problems. For one thing, it made the band wonder whether the delirium could carry beyond a very loyal - and very hungry - set of Blur fans and touch the wider world.

"If this is going to work," Damon Albarn had told the band, "then it's gotta really work. There's no point just playing a load of gigs to fans - let's see how good we are." Only the reaction to their headlining slot at Glastonbury could possibly tell them that. At 9.50pm on Sunday, June